Tesco Culture

Tesco culture, like all cultures, is an ill-defined concept.

But Tesco culture is an important thing to understand. If you are a competitor, then you need to know the culture of Tesco to know exactly what you are competing with. It is also important for job seekers, in fact on Tesco’s recruitment page it says:

“We aim to make the selection process thorough and challenging for a number of reasons. Firstly, to make sure we employ only those people who are right for the role and, just as important, who will fit in with Tesco culture.” 

Tesco Culture - The Interview Situation

This process of acceptance into the Tesco culture uses psychometric tests and interviews, following the pattern of many large companies. The interviewee then goes through a gruelling process of being “shown round” and “meeting the team”. 

More importantly, for Tesco, the team is also getting a first-hand insight into the interviewee and assessing their acceptability. This can give the interviewee “a first-hand insight into Tesco life”. Tesco suggests that this part of the interview is “not assessed.” This is rubbish, OF COURSE the interviewee is being assessed!

Obviously, part of Tesco culture is “assuming the stupidity” of their workers, and reflects a happiness to lie to them. This shows that Tesco culture reflects the crassness evident in much business culture. Such a statement shows that Tesco think its prospective employees lack basic common sense. 

Bland falsity is a common business technique that, on the surface, is an attempt to reduce the stress of the person being interviewed. It may be an attempt to try to put interviewees at ease, but it is likely to make any intelligent person think the Tesco business culture is idiotic. 

If he or she also 'thinks for themselves' and has high personal standards of morality, then they are likely to reject Tesco. This is just the sort of character the Tesco culture wants to weed out. By introducing crassness into  their interview process, Tesco make sure that anyone who makes it through will adapt well to the the idiocy and untruthfulness they will encounter in daily business life.

About Tesco

Tesco is the UK’s largest supermarket with 26% Market share, almost double that of Asda (irs closest rival).